Joseph Auslander (1897–1965)

I very much enjoyed this 1926 edition of Joseph Auslander's poetry. I must admit the title intigued me but I was not disappointed with this work. Auslander's poems are dark with sharp cutting verse. Many poems are working class industrial people. Longer poems like The Knouckout show the brutality of boxing. The title poem while very long shows his deep thought where he mixes in some mythology with the working class. I was not real familiar with the poets work before reading this bit I genuinely enjoyed the book.… (more)

CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Foreword; The Winged Horse; When Poetry Was Necessary; How Poetry Became Beautiful; The First Poets; Blind Homer; Pegasus in Greece; How Poets Invented Plays; The Romans: Horace and Virgil; The Poet of Heaven and Hell; Petrarch and His Laura; Pegasus in England; The Ballad-Makers; Queen Elizabeth's Poets; Will Shakespeare; Milton and His Angels; Poetry Becomes Sensible; The Poets of Nature; The Poets of Nature (Continued); "Childe Harold"; The Sun Treader; Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty; Lord Tennyson; The Brownings; The Poet of Ravens and Lost Ladies; "I Sing Democracy"; Under Steam and Stone; Under Steam and Stone (Continued); Pegasus in To-morrow; Reading Lists; Anthologies; Studies; References; Index.… (more)